Burning software that allows control of CD-Text

Ray K

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Oct 31, 2009, 5:54:54 PM10/31/09

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I have a large collection of music files that have the following
filename format:

SongTitle*-*Last,*First.mp3, where the * represents a single space.

Examples:

Thriller - Jackson, Michael.mp3
Begin the Beguine - Shaw, Artie.mp3

Each song also has an ID3v2 tag associated with it.

I'm looking for burner software (to make regular cda music CDs, not MP3
CDs) that will allow me to control how the CD text appears. For example,
it would interpret the spaceHYPHENspace sequence as a separator, with
everything before the first space appearing as the Title and everything
after the second space (except the .mp3) as the Artist.

Nero 6 or 8 doesn't do the job. They put it backwards, so I end up with
something like Jackson, Michael*/*Thriller as the CD-text. (Again, the *
is one space.) The problem is when I go to make a label using
AudioLabel, it reads the CD-text exactly as on the CD, so I end up with
the artist before the song title.

Thanks for your comments/leads.

Ray

Tony

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Oct 31, 2009, 7:21:58 PM10/31/09

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NTI Media Maker 8 will get it right. I was forced to use it after NTI CD &
DVD-Maker Platinum 6 busted.

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Tony

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Oct 31, 2009, 7:24:15 PM10/31/09

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Use powerdesk by Ontrack to edit the cd text then burn the edited ones.

Ray K wrote:

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Ray K

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Nov 2, 2009, 8:30:28 PM11/2/09

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Tony wrote:
> NTI Media Maker 8 will get it right. I was forced to use it after NTI CD &
> DVD-Maker Platinum 6 busted.
>

I'm concerned about that program. I got the trial version right off the
NTI website. When I looked for a way to uninstall it, I couldn't find
one. No uninstaller when I go to Start/Programs/NTI..., and when I tried
using Control Panel/Add and Remove Software, it wasn't listed.

Ray

Tony

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Nov 2, 2009, 10:06:08 PM11/2/09

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I got the retail version but the first time i downloaded one from usenet it was
loaded with spyware. I had to find one on rapidshare to find one without
spyware. The one i'm using has an uninstaller.

Ray K wrote:

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The Grandmaster of the CyberFROG

Come get your ticket to CyberFROG city

Nay, Art thou decideth playeth ye simpleton games. *Some* of us know proper
manners

Very few. I used to take calls from *rank* noobs but got fired the first day on
the job for potty mouth,

Ray K

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Nov 3, 2009, 8:40:50 AM11/3/09

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I got one from usenet that contained a virus called MaCatte (it imitates
the McAfee website), and a file called crack.exe. Caused me all sorts of
grief. There was a google redirect virus (which is fixed by
combofix.exe) and a bunch of other problems that I was able to resolve
without having to reformat c:. The only remaining problem is that my
boot times are far too long.

So if the official trial version right from NTI doesn't include an
uninstaller, I'm not using it.

All my mp3 files have ID3v2 tags, which means that the song title and
artist are separate entries. I wonder if any of the CD-text programs
writes based on ID3 entries, rather than filename structure.

Ray

Tony

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Nov 3, 2009, 8:51:09 AM11/3/09

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You just use powerdesk by ontrack right click on any song that has a ID3 tag and
click on edit ID3 tag.

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smh

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Nov 4, 2009, 2:39:42 AM11/4/09

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Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
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Check out:

File
Preferences
General
Plugin Lookup
Artist/Title information source

Expected filename format:
<TITLE><delimiter><ARTIST>
<ARTIST><delimiter><TITLE>

Experiment with the above. Two known delimiters reported so far are
Apostrophe and " - " (space, hyphen, space).

Ray K

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Nov 4, 2009, 10:36:45 PM11/4/09

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smh wrote:

> Check out:
>
> File
> Preferences
> General
> Plugin Lookup
> Artist/Title information source
>
> Expected filename format:
> <TITLE><delimiter><ARTIST>
> <ARTIST><delimiter><TITLE>
>
> Experiment with the above. Two known delimiters reported so far are
> Apostrophe and " - " (space, hyphen, space).

Which version of Nero are you referring to? I have the Essentials
versions of Nero 6 and Nero 8, which came bundled with my OEM burners.

Ray K

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Nov 4, 2009, 10:38:36 PM11/4/09

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Tony wrote:
> You just use powerdesk by ontrack right click on any song that has a ID3 tag and
> click on edit ID3 tag.

Tony,

I can do that to fix each track with my present AudioLabel, but that's
the chore I'm trying to avoid.

Ray

smh

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Nov 5, 2009, 12:52:59 AM11/5/09

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. --------------------------------------
Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
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Using Nero 6 Ultra. Essentials comes with Nero Express and it seems the
format is fixed at <TITLE> and then <ARTIST>.

Ray K

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Nov 5, 2009, 6:04:32 PM11/5/09

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Essentials is really crippled. While I can Save a project, there is no
way to Open it from Nero because there is no File menu. I have to use
Explorer to navigate to the saved file, then double-click on it.

This gives Nero a bad name, even though the burner manufacturers chose
which modules to include.

Thanks,

Ray

smh

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Nov 5, 2009, 10:45:56 PM11/5/09

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Nero Essentials is as the name may suggest for people new to burn
software. To burn with Nero Express all you have to do is specify what
you want to burn and that's it.

Get yourself a full Nero version.